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Issue 6 2017 - Freight Business Journal


///FREIGHT BREAK Ready for blast-off DHL says that it expects to


despatch its first consignments into space in two years’ time. If all goes as planned, the Peregrine Lunar Lander - the first private and commercial lunar mission - will make its way to the Moon. It will be carrying not only


scientific equipment but small honeycomb-shaped


DHL


MoonBoxes that allow private individuals to send objects up to one-inch in diameter into space. Much like a time capsule, they will be leſt in a closed container on the Moon aſter the landing. DHL says the price for sending one hexagonal box measuring


0.5” by 0.125 will be a very reasonable US$460 or US$1,660 for a 1” by 1”. No word about any return


Model citizens


As a kid, I always dreamed of owning what was then termed a radio-controlled flying model aircraft. Lack of parental funds and


visions – not All there in black and white


Qatar Airways Cargo is flying out thousands of cows to help get its home country’s dairy industry off the ground. The first two shipments of 230


Holsteins – available in any colour you like, as long as it’s black and white - have been moved from Europe on a Qatar Airways Cargo Boeing 777 freighter, the first part


of a 4,000-head herd that marks the launch of a completely new industry for the State of Qatar. Qatar Airways cargo chief, Ulrich


Ogiermann enthuses: “We are truly a part of history, helping launch the country’s newest industry, producing dairy products to meet local demand.” The cargo carrier has been


A lesson from history


Long before Brexit, there was Grexit, and Greenland’s departure from the European Union in 1982 has some stark warnings for the UK, warns David Jinks, head of consumer research at delivery firm Fastlane. Like the UK, the ice-bound


nation is an island – the largest in the world in fact – and like us, it


was never the most enthusiastic member of the Brussels club. Having joined the EU in 1973, barely a decade later it voted (by 52%, another uncanny parallel) to leave it in 1982. What then followed was years


of haggling over exit terms, says Jinks. Indeed, “Greenland’s chief negotiator, Lars Vesterbirk, describes


appointed to move more than 20 cattle shipments from Europe, the US and Australia in the next few weeks. Qatar Airways Cargo is no


stranger to moving vital supplies to Qatar. It recently undertook a Berlin- style airliſt of food and grocery items to beat the blockade imposed by neighbouring countries on 5 June.


‘surprisingly unpleasant’ and it wasn’t until 1985 that Greenland was finally able to leave.” He adds: “A possible clue to


the EU talks as


how Britain’s negotiations will unfold lies with the fact that the main opposition to Greenland leaving the then EEC came from Germany. Greenland’s negotiator has revealed: ‘They were very tough on us, wanting to keep us inside.”’ The process culminated


perhaps


entirely unfounded – of it being used to dive-bomb flocks of sheep ensured that it remained no more than an aspiration. Today’s youngsters are more


fortunate (and probably more responsible) and a group of them have been taking part in the Payload Challenge, sponsored by British-based carrier CargoLogicAir and the Royal Aeronautical Society. Organised


by the British


Model Flying Association (BMFA at the National Flying


service,


though


no


doubt


the contents will be much appreciated by any passing little green men.


Centre in Lincolnshire, teams ranging from under-17s to air cadets were tasked with designing, building and launching their own model aircraft in a series of three challenges based on distance, quantity and weight. Nevertheless, in this health


and safety age, professional radio control pilots were called in to actually fly the aircraft. Each team faced an evaluation by a panel of judges, which included CargoLogic’s lead engineer, Aleksey Matyukhin. He said: “I was honoured


to be part of the event and extremely impressed by the excellent solutions created by such young minds. Innovation is at the heart of CLA’s business strategy and it was clearly evident in the design of each team’s aircraft models.”


in a huge political row within Greenland, when the final deal came under attack by a broad part of the population, who thought negotiators had capitulated on too many of its key demands over fishing rights. Jinks says: “Replace fisheries with immigration as the key


reason for people voting Brexit, and Britain could see a similar row. If the Government puts free access


to European markets


above the populist cause of cutting immigration from EU countries, it won’t be too great a surprise if a similar argument occurs in two years.” And the result turns out not to


have entirely freed Greenland from Brussels’ regulations. On their key reason for voting Leave, fishing rights, Greenland is no longer at the table when fisheries are discussed - but because it sells its fish into the single market then every EU rule applies to it as much as it does to a full EU member.


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